CFCamp 2023

Charlie Arehart

A veteran server troubleshooter who’s worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).

: http://www.carehart.org/
: @carehart

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Dan Card

Ortus Solutions

Dan Card is a Senior Web Developer with Ortus Solutions where he occasionally helps host the Modernize or Die Podcast and write tutorial blog posts. He is an avid fan and developer of Ed Tech software and teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in the US.

: @danjcard

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Mark Drew

Mark has been programming CFML since 1996, and even though he has had forays into Perl, ASP and PHP he is still loving every line of code he has crafted with CFML. His career has concentrated on eCommerce, Content Management and Application Scalability for various well known brands in the UK market such as Jaeger, Hackett, Hobbs, Dyson, B&W, Diesel amongst others.

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Nolan Erck

South of Shasta

Nolan Erck has been developing software for 19 years. Starting in the video game industry working on titles for Maxis and LucasArts, then advancing to web development in 1999, his list of credits includes Grim Fandango, StarWars Rogue Squadron, SimPark, SimSafari as well as high-traffic websites for clients.

Nolan manages the SacInteractive User Group, teaches classes on aspects of software development, and regularly gives presentations at conferences and user groups across the country.

When he’s not consulting or talking about himself in the third person, Nolan can usually be found working on one of several music projects.

: https://southofshasta.com
: @southofshasta

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Hila Fish

Senior DevOps Engineer,

Hila Fish is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Wix, with 15 years of experience in the tech industry. AWS Community Builder, and a public speaker who believes the DevOps culture is what drives a company to perform at its best and talks about that and other DevOps/Infrastructure topics at conferences. She carries the vision to enhance and drive business success by taking care of its infrastructure.

In her spare time, Hila is a lead singer of a cover band, giving back to the community by co-organizing DevOps-related conferences (Inc. “DevOpsDays TLV” & “StatsCraft” monitoring-focused event), providing mentorship and managing programs in “Baot” (The largest Israeli technical women’s community), and enjoys sharing her passion and knowledge wherever she can, including across diverse technology communities, initiatives and social media.

: hila-fish
: @Hilafish1

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Gert Franz

No bio provided

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Pete Freitag

Pete Freitag has well over twenty years of experience building web applications with ColdFusion. In 2006 he started Foundeo Inc, a ColdFusion consulting and products company. Pete helps clients develop and architect custom ColdFusion applications, as well as review an improve the performance and security of existing applications. He has also built several products and services for ColdFusion including a Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion called FuseGuard and a ColdFusion server security scanning service called HackMyCF. His latest product is a CFML Code Security Scanner called Fixinator. Pete holds a BS in Software Engineering from Clarkson University.

: https://www.petefreitag.com
: @pfreitag

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Kevin Goldsmith

DistroKid

Kevin Goldsmith serves as the Chief Technology Officer for DistroKid, the world's largest digital music distributor. Previously, he was the CTO of Anaconda, Inc., the world's most popular data science platform with over 25 million users.
He also served as CTO of AI-powered identity management company Onfido. Other roles have included CTO at Avvo, Vice President of Engineering for consumer at Spotify, and nine years at Adobe Systems as a director of engineering. He has also held software engineering roles at Microsoft and IBM.

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Richard Herbert

I have been a CFML freelance contractor for over twenty years after looking at ASP and PHP as a replacement for Perl, which I used for the hobby websites I was playing with in the late 1990s.

Fascinating fact: I played basketball for England schoolboys in the 70s and still play every week on a Sunday morning.

I'm on Mastodon as: @[email protected]

: https://richardherbert.co.uk/

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Michael Hnat

bluegras - Internetlösungen

Michael is developing CFML application for more than 18 years and installed his first ColdFusion Server (4.0) from floppy discs (can be seen in several museums). He developed applications for several customers using different Framworks and techniques.
He has been organizing the CFCamp for 13 years meanwhile.
In his free time he's playing ice hockey and golf.

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Michael Horne

The Case Centre

I am a UK-based manager-developer with over 20 years of experience coding complex systems using primarily CFML with heavy doses of SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript and all the other fun stuff we get to use. I work for an educational charity based at, although not affiliated to, Cranfield University in Bedfordshire. In my spare time, I sing and act with amateur dramatic groups in the local area. Weird combination, I know!

: https://www.thecasecentre.org
: @recantha

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Kai Koenig

Software Architect, Ventego Creative

Kai is one of the co-founders of and works as Software Solutions Architect for Ventego Creative Ltd in Wellington, New Zealand. 

Kai got his first computer in 1985 and hasn’t stopped building things with technology since then.

As a software architect he works with a variety of clients to help them leverage technology to achieve their business visions and goals. He specialises in JVM-based technologies (like Java, Kotlin, Adobe ColdFusion, Railo and Lucee) and mobile application development with Android and Flutter.

Other areas of Kai’s interest are delivering education online, improving development teams’ performance through continuous integration and build processes, data science and machine learning technologies. 

Kai regularly speaks at international conferences like Droidcon Berlin, Mobile Refresh Wellington, CF Camp in Germany, Android Makers in France and many others. 

: kaikoenig
: @AgentK

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Maximilian Kwapil

Gamestar

Hello, my name is Max. I’ve been working as a web developer professionally for over 10 years now. As I enjoy playing video games every now and then, working for GameStar is my dream job. My wife and I also have two dogs that are extremely cute.

: https://www.gamestar.de

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Luis Majano

CEO, Ortus Solutions

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer, published author, founder and CEO of Ortus Solutions, Corp (www.ortussolutions.com), a consulting firm specializing in open sourcing tooling, web development, architecture, and professional open source.

He has been designing and working with software architecture and technologies since the year 2000. He has a passion for learning and mentoring developers so they can succeed with sustainable software practices and the usage and development of open source software.

He is the creator of ColdBox HMVC, ContentBox Modular CMS, TestBox BDD, CommandBox CLI and over 200 open source projects. He speaks regularly at several international conferences and you can read his blog at www.luismajano.com.

: https://www.ortussolutions.com
: @lmajano

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Guust Nieuwenhuis

Guust Nieuwenhuis is a Full Stack Web Wizard with experience in a wide range of technologies. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in projects for various clients like the European Commission, NSHQ (NATO), Adobe, AS Adventure Group, NS (Dutch railways), CZ Groep, Proximus, Avery Dennison, ZilliZ and Mediagenix.

Through We Are North, he does ‘Customization-As-A-Service’. They don’t build from scratch, but find the best solutions out there and tailor them to their customers’ business needs. In doing so, they never lose sight of the goal of the client.

In his free time, Guust play the double bass and drums, cross the forest on his mountain bike and coaches the youth at his local football club (where he’s a board member as well). He like spending time with my wife and two kids or meeting friends for a chat, game or drink.

When Guust still have some time left, he mainly spends it behind his computer to fulfil his hunger for the latest trends in IT.

: http://www.guustnieuwenhuis.be
: @lagaffe

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Eric Peterson

Ortus Solutions

Eric Peterson is a CFML and javascript developer at Ortus Solutions (ColdBox, CommandBox, etc.). He is a prolific module developer and the creator of projects like qb, Quick, and ColdBox Elixir. In his free time he loves spending time with family, playing geeky board games, and participating in theatre.

: @_elpete

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Jafar Shayan

ABB E-Mobility

Jafar considers himself as continuous learner and improver with high passion in software engineering and substantiality. He enjoys building high performing teams and coaching and leading them as a servant leader. Jafar holds Master of IT management and PhD of computer science. He has more than 20 years of experience in different countries and sectors.

He currently works in ABB E-Mobility on EV charging infrasturure and happily contributes to charging up EV transition and zero emission plan.

Besides his experience in industry, Jafar has contributed to the body of knowledge by publishing his research results and serving in technical committee of several academic conferences as reviewer.

: @shayan_jafar

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Grant Shepert

Grant’s first web application was written in ColdFusion 1.5 … in the 28 years since, he’s worked as contractor, speaker, team member and team leader, on projects small to vast. These days his time is shared between cutting firewood in France and coding in CFML, NextJs and Node. Slava Ukraini!

: @grantshepert

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Alex Skinner

Alex Skinner is the managing director and co-founder of global digital agency Pixl8 and provides strategic direction and consulting on the more advanced projects undertaken at Pixl8/ In addition, he works with the platform team to deliver Pixl8's Open Source CMS and MVC Framework Preside CMS.

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Zac Spitzer

Lucee

I’m the Community Manager for Lucee, responsible for co-ordinating releases, triaging bugs and supporting all the Lucee users.

I’ve been a cfml developer since 1996

Based in Berlin Germany, I’m from Melbourne, Australia.

: https://github.com/zspitzer
: @zackster

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David Tattersall

Intergral

No bio provided

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Dom Watson

Programming CFML for over 15 years, Dom the technical lead at Pixl8 Interactive, a London-based digital agency specializing in Web and Intranet development, and lead developer of Preside, their open source CFML CMS and application development platform.

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Brad Wood

Ortus Solutions

Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors. Brad has been programming ColdFusion since 2001 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server. Brad is the ColdBox Platform developer advocate at Ortus Solutions and lead developer of the CommandBox CLI.

: http://www.codersrevolution.com/
: @bdw429s

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Sebastian Zartner

Programmer for more than 25 years, full stack developer at Webedia Gaming GmbH, invited expert in CSS Working Group, proud father of a little, smart girl

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